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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Dr Robert T. Tally Jr. (Texas State University, USA)Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Imprint: Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd. Dimensions: Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.20cm , Length: 23.40cm Weight: 0.441kg ISBN: 9780826471512ISBN 10: 082647151 Pages: 192 Publication Date: 09 August 2009 Audience: College/higher education , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand ![]() We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Language: English Table of Contents"Acknowledgements Preface: ""When Leviathan's the text"" 1. Out of Bounds: Melville's American Baroque 2. Spaces of American Literature: Geography and Narrative Form 3. ""An everlasting terra incognita"": Globalization and World Literature 4. Anti-Ishmael 5. Marine Nomadology: Melville's Antinomy of Pure Reason 6. ""Spaces that before were blank"": The Utopia of the Periphery 7. A Prosy Stroll: Overview and the Urban Itinerary 8. The Ambiguities of Place: Local Narrative and the Global City Conclusion: ""Leviathan is not the biggest fish,"" or, The Cartography of the Kraken Bibliography Index"ReviewsTally's reading raises provocative questions about neglected dimensions of Melville's work. This book would be helpful for upper-level undergraduates and scholars alike.--, Tally's reading raises provocative questions about neglected dimensions of Melville's work. This book would be helpful for upper-level undergraduates and scholars alike.--Sanford Lakoff Author InformationRobert T. Tally Jr. is Professor of English at Texas State University. He is the author of many books, including The Critical Situation: Vexed Perspectives in Postmodern Literary Studies (2023); For a Ruthless Critique of All That Exists (2022); J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit: Realizing History Through Fantasy (2022); Topophrenia: Place, Narrative, and the Spatial Imagination (2019); Fredric Jameson: The Project of Dialectic Criticism (2014); Poe and the Subversion of American Literature (2014); Spatiality (2013); Utopia in the Age of Globalization (2013); Kurt Vonnegut and the American Novel (2011); and Melville, Mapping, and Globalization (2009). The translator of Bertrand Westphal’s Geocriticism: Real and Fictional Spaces (2011), Tally is also the editor or co-editor of Affective Geographies and Narratives of Chinese Diaspora (2022); Spatial Literary Studies in China (2022); Spatial Literary Studies (2020); Teaching Space, Place, and Literature (2018); The Routledge Handbook of Literature and Space (2017); Ecocriticism and Geocriticism (2016); The Geocritical Legacies of Edward W. Said (2015); Literary Cartographies (2014); Kurt Vonnegut: Critical Insights (2013); and Geocritical Explorations (2011). Tally is the general editor of “Geocriticism and Spatial Literary Studies,” a Palgrave Macmillan book series. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |